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Administrative discussions

Misplaced Pages:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive367#RfC_closure_review_request_at_Talk:Rajiv_Dixit#RFC_can_we_say_he_peddaled_false_hoods_in_the_lede

(Initiated 19 days ago on 5 December 2024) - Ratnahastin (talk) 07:18, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive367#Close challenge for Talk:1948 Arab–Israeli War#RFC for Jewish exodus

(Initiated 11 days ago on 13 December 2024) challenge of close at AN was archived nableezy - 05:22, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

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Requests for comment

Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase II/Mentoring process

(Initiated 223 days ago on 15 May 2024) Discussion died down quite a long time ago. I do not believe anything is actionable but a formal closure will help. Soni (talk) 04:19, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/In the news criteria amendments

(Initiated 78 days ago on 7 October 2024) Tough one, died down, will expire tomorrow. Aaron Liu (talk) 23:58, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

Talk:Turkey#RfC_on_massacres_and_genocides_in_the_lead

(Initiated 77 days ago on 8 October 2024) Expired tag, no new comments in more than a week. KhndzorUtogh (talk) 21:48, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

 Note: This is a contentious topic and subject to general sanctions. Also see: Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard topic. Bogazicili (talk) 17:26, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

 Note: Not sure if anyone is looking into this, but might be a good idea to wait for a few weeks since there is ongoing discussion. Bogazicili (talk) 16:33, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia_talk:Talk_page_guidelines#Request_for_comment:_Do_the_guidelines_in_WP:TPO_also_apply_to_archived_talk_pages?

(Initiated 69 days ago on 16 October 2024) Discussion seems to have petered out a month ago. Consensus seems unclear. Gnomingstuff (talk) 02:34, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

 Note: Needs admin closure imho, due to its importance (guideline page), length (101kb), and questions about neutrality of the Rfc question and what it meant. Mathglot (talk) 21:28, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

And in true Streisand effect fashion, this discussion, quiescent for six weeks, has some more responses again. Mathglot (talk) 01:30, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 459#RFC_Jerusalem_Post

(Initiated 58 days ago on 28 October 2024) Participation/discussion has mostly stopped & is unlikely to pick back up again. - Butterscotch Beluga (talk) 21:15, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

 Note: This is a contentious topic and subject to general sanctions. - Butterscotch Beluga (talk) 21:15, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Archived. P.I. Ellsworth , ed.  22:26, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_comment/Grey_Literature

(Initiated 45 days ago on 10 November 2024) Discussion is slowing significantly. Likely no consensus, personally. Bluethricecreamman (talk) 03:09, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Option 2 was very clearly rejected. The closer should try to see what specific principles people in the discussion agreed upon if going with a no consensus close, because there should be a follow-up RfC after some of the details are hammered out. Chess (talk) (please mention me on reply) 03:10, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

 Doing... —Compassionate727  13:43, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

@Compassionate727: Still working on this? — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 17:18, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

Ugh… in practice, no. I'm still willing to do it, but it's in hiatus because of the three(!) pending challenges of my closures at AN, while I evaluate to what extent I need to change how I approach closures. If somebody else wants to take over this, they should feel free. —Compassionate727  22:16, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

Taking a pause is fair. Just wanted to double check. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 00:52, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

asking for an update if possible. I think this RFC and previous RFCBEFORE convos were several TOMATS long at this point, so I get that this might take time. Bluethricecreamman (talk) 16:34, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_comment#RFC_on_signing_RFCs

(Initiated 41 days ago on 13 November 2024) - probably gonna stay status quo, but would like a closure to point to Bluethricecreamman (talk) 06:14, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

• Done Soni (talk) 21:41, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#RfC: Check Your Fact

(Initiated 41 days ago on 13 November 2024) RfC has elapsed, and uninvolved closure is requested. — Red-tailed sock _{(Red-tailed hawk's nest)} 15:49, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#RfC Indian numbering conventions

(Initiated 38 days ago on 16 November 2024) Very wide impact, not much heat. Aaron Liu (talk) 15:30, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

• Consensus seems clear, I don't think my Indian-ness poses a WP;COI here, closed. Soni (talk) 22:03, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Talk:List of fictional countries set on Earth#RfC on threshold for inclusion

(Initiated 34 days ago on 20 November 2024) TompaDompa (talk) 17:50, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages talk:Naming conventions (music)#RfC about the naming conventions for boy bands

(Initiated 16 days ago on 8 December 2024) No further participation in the last 7 days. Consensus is clear but I am the opener of the RfC and am not comfortable closing something I am so closely involved in, so would like somebody uninvolved to close it if they believe it to be appropriate.RachelTensions (talk) 16:00, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

I'm not comfortable closing a discussion on a guideline change this early. In any case, if the discussion continues as it has been, a formal closure won't be necessary. —Compassionate727  13:00, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Articles for creation#RfC: Should a bot be created to handle AfC submissions that haven't changed since the last time they were submitted?

(Initiated 39 days ago on 15 November 2024) This RfC expired five days ago, has an unclear consensus, I am involved, and discussion has died down. JJP_Master (she/they) 22:56, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Talk:Len_Blavatnik#RfC:_NPOV_in_the_lead

(Initiated 8 days ago on 16 December 2024) RFC is only 5 days old as of time of this posting, but overwhelming consensus approves of status quo, except for a single COI editor. Bluethricecreamman (talk) 21:04, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

The CoI editor has now accepted that consensus is for the status quo, but I think a formal close from an uninvolved editor, summarizing the consensus would be helpful, since the issue has been coming up for a while and many editors were involved. — penultimate_supper 🚀 16:35, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

yes, despite multiple posts to WP:BLPN, WP:NPOVN, WP:3O, several talk page discussions, and now an RFC, I doubt the pressure to remove word oligarch from the lede of that page will stop. An appropriate close could be a useful thing to point at in the future though. Bluethricecreamman (talk) 16:40, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done by Nomoskedasticity. —Compassionate727  13:30, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

Template talk:Infobox country#Request for comment on greenhouse emissions

(Initiated 89 days ago on 27 September 2024) Lots of considered debate with good points made. See the nom's closing statement. Kowal2701 (talk) 09:47, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done —Compassionate727  13:29, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

Talk:Israel#RfC

(Initiated 32 days ago on 22 November 2024) Legobot has removed the RFC notice. Can we please get an interdependent close. TarnishedPath 23:08, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Talk:Chloe Melas#RFC on allegation of making a false allegation (resubmission)

(Initiated 31 days ago on 24 November 2024) The bot has removed the RFC notice. Can we please get an independent close. TarnishedPath 23:03, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done —Compassionate727  13:44, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

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Deletion discussions

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/List of songs recorded by Mohammed Rafi (A)

Please review this discussion. --Jax 0677 (talk) 17:29, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

The discussion has now been relisted thrice. --Jax 0677 (talk) 00:42, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

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Other types of closing requests

Talk:Arab migrations to the Levant#Merger Proposal

(Initiated 91 days ago on 25 September 2024) Open for a while, requesting uninvolved closure. Andre🚐 22:15, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Talk:LGBT history in Georgia#Proposed merge of LGBT rights in Georgia into LGBT history in Georgia

(Initiated 79 days ago on 7 October 2024) A merge + move request with RM banners that needs closure. No new comments in 20 days. —CX Zoom 20:16, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done —Compassionate727  14:11, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

Talk:Donald Trump#Proposal: Age and health concerns regarding Trump

(Initiated 70 days ago on 16 October 2024) Experienced closer requested. ―Mandruss ☎ 13:57, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

Talk:Tesla Cybercab#Proposed merge of Tesla Network into Tesla Cybercab

(Initiated 68 days ago on 18 October 2024) This needs formal closure by someone uninvolved. N2e (talk) 03:06, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

I think it would be better to leave that discussion be. There is no consensus one way or the other. I could close it as "no consensus," but I think it would be better to just leave it so that if there's ever anyone else who has a thought on the matter, they can comment in that discussion instead of needing to open a new one. —Compassionate727  14:15, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

Talk:Stadion Miejski (Białystok)#Requested move 5 November 2024

(Initiated 49 days ago on 5 November 2024) RM that has been open for over a month. Natg 19 (talk) 02:13, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

Talk:JTG Daugherty Racing#Requested move 22 November 2024

(Initiated 32 days ago on 22 November 2024) Pretty simple RM that just needs an uninvolved editor to close. ―"Ghost of Dan Gurney" _(hihi) 17:40, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done —Compassionate727  14:37, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

Talk:Williamsburg Bray School#Splitting proposal

(Initiated 28 days ago on 27 November 2024) Only two editors—the nominator and myself—have participated. That was two weeks ago. Just needs an uninvolved third party for closure. ~ Pbritti (talk) 18:37, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

 Doing... BusterD (talk) 20:28, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

Talk:Winter fuel payment abolition backlash#Merge proposal

(Initiated 57 days ago on 29 October 2024) There are voices on both sides (ie it is not uncontroversial) so a non-involved editor is needed to evaluate consensus and close this. Thanks. PamD 09:55, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

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Requests for closure page

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The Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure page has a significant backlog. Posting here for any administrators interested in helping to bring it up-to-date. Northamerica1000 14:12, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

This section wouldn't have been necessary if you hadn't accidentally hidden that subpage. I have corrected your change here. Fram (talk) 14:31, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the correction, I accidently removed the closing </noinclude> in the intro when editing. The page remains significantly backlogged. Northamerica1000 20:32, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

I actually think what is out of hand is the idea that an admin is needed to close a lot of these discussions. But as someone who does close a fair number of them I can tell you it is no mystery why it gets backlogged. It's work, and you tend to get yelled at a lot if you do your job right. And some of the stuff that has been there a long time is still there because nobody can figure out how to close it, or because it it is an extremely long discussion of an extremely trivial issue that is probably only of any interest whatsoever to the three or four people participating in the said discussion. Kind of a "what's the point" scenario as no matter what tou do they will just keep arguing about it anyway. However I will have a look through it and see if I can't knock down part of the backlog. Anyone else care to give it a go? By the way it is always helpful to use {{closing}} to avoid two admins working the same discussion at the same time. Beeblebrox (talk) 17:13, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

I've knocked down four or five but now RL is calling. Still plenty on the pile for anyone who wants to do some reading. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:39, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

I fully agree with you that an Admin is not required to close these sorts of discussions. Any uninvolved experienced editor should be able to do this - perhaps the problem is that this list is on the wrong page. Dougweller (talk) 12:48, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Eternity clause (part 2)

Problems again with editor User:Ofthehighest at Eternity clause. Please see Misplaced Pages:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive239#Eternity_clause for my previous posts on this. Again, I don't want to see the editor blocked: he simply doesn't understand some basics about Misplaced Pages. I'm probably not the best person to be explaining it to him at the moment. Can someone who's a better explainer please have a gentle word with him? Thanks, Lone boatman (talk) 11:23, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Lone boatman is vandalizing the eternity clause article, because he insists on his political views being read first, i.e., his opinion that Germany's Basic Law is a "constitution". He has repeatedly and in violation of the reference he cited removed the word "democracy" and supplanted it with "constitution". And when I have brought it to his attention that the reference cited is not about changing a "constitution" or the "Basic Law," but about changing "democracy," he has now added the material about other countries which already in Misplaced Pages's article "entrenched clause". He has done this only to stop people from seeing that the article is about the 'eternity clause' in Germany. Lone boatman has also been vandalizing this article by censoring me. He claims that he is able to "paraphrase" things even though he has plagiarized (and after I correct it) claims he made new changes to paraphrase -- but is instead attempting to synthesize by supplanting the word "democracy" with "constitution". He has done this repeatedly even though the article he initially referenced is not about changing a "constitution" or "Basic Law," but about changing "democracy". And now, by adding material about entrenched clauses in other countries, he is attempting to conceal the article on German's eternity clause which has the Deutsche.de comparison article called Ewigkeitsklausel (or Ewigkeitsgarantie). The 'eternity clause' is the colloquial description of this entrenched clause in Germany. And Lone boatman has also found my blog and told me in Wikipidia talk that I had the wrong opinions and he then falsely and repeatedly accused me of using my blog as a reference. He has still not apologized for doing so after I repeatedly informed him that he had falsely accused me. His intent is to stop readers from reading what I have written on Misplaced Pages's article on the eternity clause. He has repeatedly deleted accurate paraphrases I have made which have been referenced correctly. I hereby request protection for this article. I would like to complete writing it without it being vandalized. Once it is written and approved by Misplaced Pages I would like Misplaced Pages to protect the article as it protects other articles here on Misplaced Pages. Why? Because the Deutsch.de article is totally false. The German people and people around the world need to know about the 'eternity clause,' the history affecting it and the fundamental principles of Germany's democracy it intends to protect.--Ofthehighest (talk) 12:09, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

I have no comment on the content of the article (admins have no higher say than anyone else on content issues), but please both be warned that if you continue to edit war at this article, you stand a very good chance of being blocked. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 12:30, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

My apologies: I was under the impression that reverting deletion of referenced content wasn't considered edit-warring. I will refrain in future. Lone boatman (talk) 12:53, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Oh, and Ofthehighest, when you are involved in a content dispute, you must not accuse the other party of vandalism - Vandalism has a very specific definition here, and disagreement over content or points of view is not included. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 12:32, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Editor Ofthehighest, I have at no point told you that you have "the wrong opinions". I note that you have also posted about me at the Dispute resolution board, claiming in this edit that "he has written to me saying that he disapproves of my views". This is bizarre fiction: I have never written to you about anything, ever, and I do not disapprove of your views. If you review my edits to the article, they clearly show that while I have indeed changed the wording of the article several times, I have never attempted to "censor" anything, only to revert repeated attempts at re-adding unreferenced WP:Original research and essay-like analysis. Other editors on the article's talk page have (before I turned up) expressed similar concerns about the WP:POV, WP:Editorializing tone of the article, but because I actually tried to edit the article for a more WP:Neutral point of view rather than simply complain about it, you've accused me of all manner of bad conduct. I don't expect to see a retraction of any of your accusations, but if you expect your claims to be taken seriously by administrators, then I suggest you provide WP:DIFFs here, showing a shred of evidence to support them. Lone boatman (talk) 19:44, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

This has also been brought up Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Ofthehighest where I have blocked Ofthehighest for 1 week for repeatedly making false accusations of vandalism against others. De728631 (talk) 18:46, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Crash message inside pages. "Failed to parse, cannot write to folder..."

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Error Message: Failed to parse (Cannot write to or create math output directory): V_S\

Seen on: http://en.wikipedia.org/Differential_signaling

Example message inline:

To see why, consider a single-ended digital system with supply voltage Failed to parse (Cannot write to or create math output directory): V_S\, . The high logic level is Failed to parse (Cannot write to or create math output directory): V_S\, — Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.35.208.21 (talk) 16:45, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Fixed. Reaper Eternal (talk) 16:57, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

This is a Java failure. Yesterday I got an update to Java version 1.6.0_35, so I suppose most people installed this too. Please be sure to enable Java Console for your system and then reload the Wiki page in your browser. That should fix it. De728631 (talk) 17:00, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Oh, looks an edit conflict between RE and me. So apparently it was on the server side? De728631 (talk) 17:02, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Semiprotection not working appropriately

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It seems that semiprotection is no longer working correctly in that non-autoconfirmed users can edit semiprotected pages. (See this edit.) Requesting his user groups returns only "*" and "User". Furthermore, new users can also apparently move pages (this was stopped by an edit filter), and requesting his user groups returns the same lack of autoconfirmed. Am I missing something, or have some bugs managed to get committed into the codebase? Reaper Eternal (talk) 19:07, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

I may be mistaken, here, but Misplaced Pages:Edit filter/Requested appears to only be move-protected and not semi-protected... Salvio 19:17, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Yes. I apologise for confusing you with the wrong template. The page is rightly not semi'd, but I could not edit it. There were so many brightly coloured boxes on the edit page, that I couldn't distinguish the problem. 78.146.252.101 (talk) 19:18, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

You can always use a {{Help me}} template to request help for issues where there isn't a specific request template. Monty₈₄₅ 19:46, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Use of Threat to Resolve Dispute

It has caught my attention that, as on the surface it appears, threat was used to resolve a dispute, and, thus, I would like to bring the following for your kind perusal.

User H tan H epi tas had threatened, "Watch your mouth and accept a third opinion. If you don't, User:Chaipau should file a complaint at the appropriate section" () - while user Chaipau did file complaint as per the threat against user Bhaskarbhagawati.

To assist further, I would like to add the following as well:

• User H tan H epi tas account was created just hours ago before giving third opinion in Assam talk page.
• User H tan H epi tas account became inactive again for few days after complaining against user Bhaskarbhagawati, which shows that H tan H epi tas was created for purposes. Here is his activity log ().
• User H tan H epi tas threatened and user Chaipau implemented the threat - both users are same individual.

As per the requirements users H tan H epi tas and Chaipau are notified thru their talk page.

User Bhaskarbhagawati is also notified.

Appreciate it very much for your times. Thank you, --130.65.109.101 (talk) 19:50, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

H tan H epi tas (talk · contribs) has not edited in about 2 months, absent a positive finding at Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/Chaipau, I think the matter is stale. Suggesting someone file a complaint if behavioral norms are not followed is probably not wrong anyway. Monty₈₄₅ 20:04, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

• Re- supposed "use of threat": I think you need to get a life. I haven't threatened anyone. User:Bhaskarbhagawati was being rude, aggressive and accusative. I told him/her to watch their mouth and I advised User:Chaipau to take it further as per wikipedia regulations, since User:Bhaskarbhagawati did not accept the third opinion I provided. If anything, User:Bhaskarbhagawati and everybody else who stirred this up owe ME an apology. It's User:130.65.109.101 who should be checked out.

Read my reply about sockpuppetry here Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/Chaipau

I really don't have the time or the mood for your games.

--H tan H epi tas (talk) 19:46, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

• Can't say I care for either parties tone or all the uneccessary bolding in that discussion, but there is no "threat" and the SPI is utterly without merit. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:52, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

• As suspected, IP 130.65.109.101 belongs to San Jose State University, California. It has been blacklisted by dnsbl.sorbs.net and SORBS Dynamic IP Addresses. Another student who abuses the university's resources and hides behind them. --H tan H epi tas (talk) 20:30, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Happiness Mkuthawasi

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I am the agent for Mr Happiness Mkuthawasi and I have created a page for him. An admin has placed a speedy deletion saying it is a hoax? Why is this? Thank you. --HisHealthAndWellbeing (talk) 00:26, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Because it is a hoax. You uploaded a picture of Steve Harvey, along with several other hoaxes you created using copyvio pictures, which you claim license to. I've indefinitely blocked the user. ⇒SWATJester 00:34, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Also  Confirmed:

• Jimme-Retchet (talk · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• QuestionableThesis (talk · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

--MuZemike 17:59, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Moreover, all three accounts are sockpuppets of Technoquat (talk · contribs). --MuZemike 18:06, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Arbitration motion regarding User:EncycloPetey

Resolved by motion at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case that:

For using his administrator tools while involved (see evidence), the administrator permissions of User:EncycloPetey are revoked. To regain administrator permissions, EncycloPetey must make a successful Request for Adminship (RfA).

For the Arbitration Committee, Alexandr Dmitri (talk) 14:19, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Discuss this

Gustave

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this hurricane was in 2008 not 2002. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.250.74.20 (talk) 15:37, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

See Hurricane Gustav (disambiguation); there have been 3 Hurricane Gustavs, and 2 tropical storms. Storm names are routinely recycled as long as they don't cause particularly large amounts of damage or loss of life. Monty₈₄₅ 15:51, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Motions regarding discretionary sanctions and Falun Gong 2

Pursuant to two motions voted on at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment, the following actions have been taken:

• Mandated external review (MER) has been explicitly adopted as a form of discretionary sanctions. In brief, editors subject to MER are restricted from making more than minor changes to an article in the area of conflict without first gathering consensus on the article's talk page.
• Users Homunculus, Ohconfucius, and Colipon, who were subjected to MER in Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Falun Gong 2, may only appeal their sanctions to the Arbitration Committee. Editors who are sanctioned by individual administrators in the future may appeal the sanction as they would any discretionary sanction.

For the Arbitration Committee,
NW (Talk) 16:59, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Discuss this

3 revert rule breaking and Sock-puppet (?) tag-team continual bullying

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I am suffering some personal attacks on the Talk:Karaims page , , , I want to confess that I too am no longer guilt free as I also slipped into this revert war as this user seems to be a sock puppet of Toddy1 who sometimes confuses Nozdref's edits with his own I lost track. As Toddy1, Nozdref's reverts include , and . As sockpuppet (?) Toddy1, Nozdref is also deleting my discussion comments and inserting them in inappropriate places. Nozdref has already been warned by admin on the discussion page concerning ad-hominem attacks. I have continually asked for assistance and called for constructive contributions to arrive at consensus instead of bullying, but top no avail. These two IDs are dead-set against a change even when they themselves bring up evidence calling for the rename. The final resort of these folks is to deteriorate the whole thing into personal attacks. I have an impeccable 9 year edit history on wikipedia. I would like something to be done about this please.If I have placed this message in the wrong place please can someone help. Kaz 18:33, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

My initial take is that you are all acting in a reprehensible manner and if the mudslinging, which you have particpated in as much or more than the users you complain about. And edit warring. You've clearly been doing that. I think some short blocks or in order here to settle this nonsense down. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:37, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Nozdref and Kaz both blocked for 24 hours. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:40, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Arbitration motion regarding Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/The Troubles

Resolved by motion at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment that:

Remedy 5 (Standard discretionary sanctions) of Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/The Troubles is amended as follows:

The words "and British baronets" are stricken from this remedy. The Committee reserves the right to restore sanctions to this area by motion, should a pattern of editing problems re-emerge. Existing sanctions which were placed prior to this amendment remain in effect (and unmodified) until they expire or are lifted via the normal appeals process.

For the Arbitration Committee, --Guerillero | My Talk 19:57, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Discuss this

Grant Shapps

..might be worth keeping an eye on. According to the Guardian, he's been naughty. Black Kite (talk) 21:48, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Uncontroversial pagemove

Okay, we have a page at Usharal, and a page created back in March at Ucharal. The former has been around 4 years and has more info, but it turns out that Ucharal is the right spelling. Since Ucharal has less content, and nothing but a Wikimapia link, it can be safely speedied to make way for the page move. Ten Pound Hammer • 23:00, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Are you sure that the "ch" spelling is the correct one? Cyrillic ш is generally transliterated in English as "sh" (e.g., "Shostakovich"). "Ch" is generally the French way of transliterating it (e.g. Chostakovitch). ~~ Lothar von Richthofen (talk) 00:11, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Never mind. Ten Pound Hammer • 00:15, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

And anyways, ain't there an "non-controversial" section on the Requested Moves page that should be where to place this discussion? pbp 04:38, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

RFC closure

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Moved to WP:ANRFC. Jafeluv (talk) 11:19, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Battle of Raab

Hello! There is an edit war between users Doncsesz and DITWIN GRIM. The Kingdom of Hungary was NOT part of the Austrian Empire (or Holy Roman Empire), but there was a personal union between the two country since 1526. Please, protect the article. --Norden1990 (talk) 11:17, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

I have source (in Hungarian and also in English) about the presence of separate Hungarian forces in the Battle of Raab:

I've just blocked both editors for 24 hours (which may be being generous to Doncsesz given their history). However, please note that a) reports of edit warring should be made at WP:AN3 rather than here and b) you must notify editors you report here and at WP:ANI (and it's good practice to post notifications of reports to the other central noticeboards). As a comment, the extent of the edit warring here was horrible. I've also watchlisted the article, and will follow up on further edit warring. Nick-D (talk) 11:57, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Banning proposal for Dewan357

I really dislike formal ban proposals, but here goes one: Dewan357's status as a banned editor has been disputed by Drmies and the lack of such a formal indictment has been held out as a fig-leaf by Dewan357. As a result, I would like to see a formal ban placed on Dewan357. Why? Because of constant sock-puppeting, as documented in WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Dewan357/Archive, and his recent reappearance as

1. 69.112.76.243 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
2. 149.151.144.59 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
3. 149.151.144.60 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
4. 174.255.113.212 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
5. 174.226.194.202 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
6. 174.226.194.202 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

—Kww(talk) 17:08, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Although Kww has provided a diff for a single edit regarding Drmies' objection, it's actually better to read the entire thread, which can be found here. Note that the portion of the dispute relevant here is not about whether Dewan357 should be community banned, but about whether he is currently "de-facto banned" and can therefore be dealt with as if he was already banned. In fact, Kww is apparently here in response to Drmies' suggestion that if he wants to deal with Dewan357 as if he is banned, he should start a ban discussion. Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:09, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

You have the time-sequence reversed: this is in response to my earlier notification to Drmies that I had opened a formal ban discussion. I don't think there's any reasonable doubt that Dewan357 is de-facto banned, and view this as merely a formality to remove that as a debating point.—Kww(talk) 22:21, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

I think there's quite a bit of doubt as to whether Dewan357 is "de facto" banned, and I wouldn't call any request to ban a user as "merely a formality". I skimmed through the SPI report, and it looks to me like you've invested quite a bit of time and energy in Dewan357 and his puppets, almost like owning a sock. Perhaps that's why you're unable to see this as clearly as someone more removed from it.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:32, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

• I don't care one way or the other whether this editor gets banned or not. I have some specific problems here with KWW's way of handling this whole problem, which resembles a vendetta going back three years (as the SPI, Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/Dewan357/Archive, makes clear). If the editor is banned, fine--but I can't help but think it's the way in which we've handled this that has made it an ongoing problem. Please see the thread my talk page for more context, and perhaps comments on KWW's and Materialscientist's talk pages. Drmies (talk) 22:15, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
• Oppose Frankly, I feel that Kww made this ban request solely to give himself more ammunition while misapplying WP:BAN and wikilawyering with the same. Ryan Vesey 22:18, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

And your reason for not banning Dewan357 based on Dewan357's behaviour is ...?—Kww(talk) 22:21, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Unnecessary wikilawyering. You know that you only want Dewan357 banned for personal reasons. Any possible chance Dewan357 has of ever editing Misplaced Pages again will not be changed by the existence of a ban. Ryan Vesey 22:30, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

• Support - Regardless of Kww's behavior, Dewan357's record as a prolific sockpuppeteer makes comminity banning appropriate. If he wants to be a prductive editor again after the ban, he should stop socking and fulfill the requireents of the standard offer. Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:38, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
• Yes, you are certainly correct on the OFFER thing. Dewan has been watching my talk page, I think; maybe he's watching this as well. Drmies (talk) 22:51, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

• I'm having difficulty finding the diffs, but Dewan357 has been through the BASC process, and lied about having been away for six months only weeks after having his last socks blocked. Anyone know where the BASC records are kept? If I remember correctly, my discussions with the BASC were via e-mail, and the e-mails are archived on a machine I won't have access to for a couple of weeks.—Kww(talk) 23:06, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

• Question, aside from sockpuppetry, can someone point to this editor's problematic edits? Ryan Vesey 23:01, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

• His block log is a good place to start. Originally edit-warring, followed by socking in order to edit-war after having been blocked. Note that I never blocked the original account.—Kww(talk) 23:09, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

• I apologize, I was wondering if there have been any non-socking editing issues since 2009. (I'm not necessarily saying they don't exist; however, those wanting him banned should have provided the evidence.) Ryan Vesey 23:15, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

• No one tracks the quality of his edits. Only that he socks and lies in unblock requests (as can be seen at User talk:Dewan357).—Kww(talk) 23:17, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

• Seeing that you have no examples, my opinion is strengthened. Ryan Vesey 23:34, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
• Kww, you don't look at the quality of their edits. I did, and the ones I thought were useful I reinstated. And I have a hunch that don't articles won't be targets anymore. Drmies (talk) 01:46, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

• (edit conflict) In line with Ryan's question, I believe that the part of WP:BAN that Kevin is relying on for saying that Dewan357 is de facto banned is: "In some cases the community may have discussed an indefinite block and reached a consensus of uninvolved editors not to unblock the editor. Editors who remain indefinitely blocked after due consideration by the community are considered 'banned by the Misplaced Pages community'." Yet, the SPI report is hardly a community discussion. So, what Kevin is really suggesting, in my view, is that an indefinitely blocked sockmaster at some unspecified point (persistence? prodigiousness? something else?), falls within the scope of those two sentences in the policy. But that's not what the policy says. Are we just banning him based on a pro forma recognition that he's a major sockmaster? If so, perhaps we should change the policy to permit such a ban.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:19, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

• Not to be too obvious, but the socking is disruptive in and of itself, and doesn't require additional disruptive behaviors. And, yes, I would say that when an editor continues socking frequently for a long enough period of time, it does start to become bannable behavior -- and the community can determine for itself what it considers to be bannable, or not. I've seen any number of banning discussions here and on ANI based almost totally on a history of socking I see nothing different here, no ameliorating factor that would justify not banning. (Of course, some editors just don't believe that banning is necessary or effective in any case, but that's a different matter.) Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:43, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

• I don't disagree with you, BMK, including your ending parenthetical, and I'm not opposing the ban. I just like policy to be clearer. In part, this whole thing stems from a disagreement about policy; see also Jayron's comment below--Bbb23 (talk) 00:23, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

• The failed unblock requests at User talk:Dewan357 support the contention that no admin is willing to unblock him, and I rely on that as well.—Kww(talk) 23:27, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

• Have you read the failed unblock requests? There have been two in 2012. Both were done only because he did not answer the three relevant questions pointed to in Hersfold's decline. I disagree with the rationale behind Selket's decline but agree with the decline itself. (He attempted to answer the questions but didn't answer them in a satisfactory manner). Ryan Vesey 23:34, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

• Oppose as superfluous and gravedancing. Doesn't actually have any functional effect on how we will treat editing from this person. Defacto ban is already in existance as far as I am concerned, and if I run across this person, I intend to treat them as any other banned editor. --Jayron32 23:35, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Talk Vandalism

User Toddy1 is vandalising discussions by deleting user comments from discussion pages on Talk:Karaims and Talk:Crimean Karaites and moving them to inappropriate locations to hamper discussion on restoring the original name of the article in accordance with WP:UCN and WP:CRITERIA. Kaz 19:46, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

(Non-admin observation) This looks like a good-sized WP:BOOMERANG headed in your direction. You inserted the header "Ad-Hominem Talk" into the talk page above another user's comments, violating WP:RTP in the process. You're also edit-warring and using IP sockpuppets. This should be good. Evanh2008 01:27, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

User:IronGargoyle has broken Misplaced Pages rules

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WP:BOOMERANG--Jayron32 01:27, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

You do realise that User:IronGargoyle has deleted the Fantastic Shabalanga page while the page was still in the middle of an articles for deletion discussion? See this please.

Also, under the reasons User:IronGargoyle has to delete it, this user wrote "Speedy deleted, vandalism" even though the page was not under a speedy deletion template and there was no evidence that there was any vandalism there. No one complained of vandalism, not even any admins. They just complained of notability, even though I provided an external link. --Kijoorete-Bahnhof (talk) 00:39, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Have you read Misplaced Pages:Notability (people) yet? I assume not, otherwise you wouldn't be wasting our time with nonsense like this. AndyTheGrump (talk) 00:42, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Yes I have read that, but I invite you to tell me what part of what I have said is nonsense? In essence all of what I have written above is true is it not? There was NO speedy deletion notice, and was NO complaint of vandalism and this user CLOSED the debate before it had finished! Please comment on that User:AndyTheGrump. --Kijoorete-Bahnhof (talk) 00:47, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

• Reviewing the article and discussion, this seems to meet both WP:CSD#A7 and WP:SNOW in spades. I see nothing that was done wrong here. --Jayron32 00:52, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Comment suggest you review WP:AN#Happiness_Mkuthawasi too.--Robert Keiden (talk) 00:54, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

User:Jayron32- The snowball clause is not policy, it reads that in the article therefore your comments do not read much. I have linked Jimbo Wales to this debate on his talk page. Clearly this is a serious matter and we need a higher power to resolve this. --Kijoorete-Bahnhof (talk) 01:01, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

However, WP:CSD#A7 is policy. I don't see how involving our founder in this will help matters.--Jasper Deng (talk) 01:04, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Also, please don't post this in too many places, because otherwise it looks like forum shopping and/or canvassing.--Jasper Deng (talk) 01:07, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

• Someone please block this chap as a sock. His behavior, coupled with Robert Keiden (talk · contribs)'s link, makes it beyond obvious that he is the latest incarnation of Technoquat (talk · contribs). Goodvac (talk) 01:07, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

(multiple edit conflict) Kijoorete-Bahnhof sounds an awful lot like the latest Category:Misplaced Pages sockpuppets of Technoquat. Another sock User:RouteLeader recently posted to the help desk about adult diapers and so did Kijoorete-Bahnhof . RouteLeader also filed a silly complaint here as a brand new account, and posted to Jimbo . PrimeHunter (talk) 01:09, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Well isn't that interesting. Kijoote-Bahnof just edited Jimbo's talk page by inviting him to this thread. --Jprg1966  01:13, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

• (edit conflict)Regardless of socking or not, the canvassing and the failure to listen here seem to be leading to a a hard hit for the OP, especially if they post at another place about this.--Jasper Deng (talk) 01:14, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

• I am indef blocking Kijoorete-Bahnhof (talk · contribs) for general disruption. He may also be a plausible sockpuppet account, but his general disruption is sufficient cause for the block. If he can convince someone at his talkpage that he is here for constructive purposes, anyone is welcome to unblock. MBisanz 01:15, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

You will be surprised to find that I have no idea who User:Robert Keiden is. Nor do I know what a Technoquat is either. And 'block as a sock' makes no sense to me. I believe this discussion is going off course which is why I invited Jimbo Wales. Can we please get back to the point of why User:IronGargoyle did what he did? Thank you. --Kijoorete-Bahnhof (talk) 01:16, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

'block as a sock' is short for "account block because you are using a sockpuppet account". I think we've explained to you enough about why IronGargoyle did what he did and didn't do what he didn't do.--Jasper Deng (talk) 01:20, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

•  Checkuser note:  Likely this is Technoquat, i'm running checks for sleepers and an IP block now if possible. -- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 01:26, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

User:Arzel consistently poor behavior

Having been subject to snide remarks by Arzel and witnessed him make such comments to others, I am making a formal complaint here. The conduct of this editor is questionable. For example, just from his last 100 edits we have:

• battleground behavior, assumptions of bad faith, uncivil discourse:

• pettifog retribution:

• clear political agenda:

I repeat: that's just cherry picked from the last 100 edits. There are so many violations of WP:CIVIL, WP:AGF, and WP:BATTLEGROUND that it's not even worth counting.

I would very much appreciate it if admins could take a look at this and issue whatever warnings/topic bans/blocks they feel appropriate. Kerfuffler (talk) 02:09, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

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